We sincerely thank the editors and Oxford University Press for granting us permission to post these papers from the International Journal of Epidemiology to the People’s Epidemiology Library, Reprints and Reflections section.

Commentary: Uauy R and Lock K (2006).
Commentary: The importance of addressing the rise of overweight and obesity—progress or lack of action during the last fifty years?
. Int J Epidemiol 35:18-20. PDF

Commentary: Caballero B and Wang Y (2006).
Commentary: Obesity and mortality—light at the end but still a long tunnel
. Int J Epidemiol 35:21-22. PDF

Commentary: Nettleton S (2009). Commentary: The appearance of new medical cosmologies and the re-appearance of sick and healthy men and women: a comment on the merits of social theorizing . Int J Epidemiol 38:633-636. PDF

Commentary: Prior L (2009). Commentary: From sick men and women, to patients, and thence to clients and consumers—the structuring of the ‘patient’ in the modern world . Int J Epidemiol 38:637-639. PDF

Commentary: Thompson IM, Lucia MS, and Tangen CM (2007). Commentary: The ubiquity of prostate cancer: echoes of the past, implications for the present: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again,; there is nothing new under the sun." ECCLESIASTES 1:9 . Int J Epidemiol 36:287-289. PDF